Category: YouTube Delights (91-100 of 134)

Jan 28 2010 01:01 PM ET

New Mariah Carey video, 'Up Out My Face': Finally! Mimi is emancipated by hot new video

Sometimes, Mariah gets it wrong (“H.A.T.E. U”? H.A.T.E.D. those freakin swimsuits. “I Want to Know What Love Is”? I want to know why you’re in a baseball stadium full of sad people).

And then—she gets it so right.  In the new video for “Up Out My Face” from her upcoming duets remix album Angels Advocate, due March 30, there are so very many things to love: the color scheme (Target ad? White Stripes tribute?); the nonsensical (but sexical!) nurses’ outfits and Barbie boxes; rising Lil Wayne protege Nicki Minaj getting red, white, and saucypants all over; Nick Cannon (he also directs the clip) reprising his Drumline stomp in the outro. They wear silly outfits, they make silly faces; they have fun:

Wasn’t that delicious? Do you not want to put Minaj in your pocket? Are you fonder of Nick Cannon than you were five and half minutes ago? (He also directed his wife in another new video, the less-than-scintillating Ne-Yo collaboration “Angels Cry,” but we are letting that one slide; it is a forgiveness kind of day). Tell us what you think in the comments section below.

More from EW.com’s Music Mix:
Matt Morris: Justin Timberlake’s “Hallelujah” duet partner talks Haiti telethon, Justin’s next move
Kanye West: New album sooner than expected?
Broken Bells: Watch the first video from Danger Mouse and the Shins’ James Mercer

Ticketmaster/Live Nation merger: What’s in it for you?

New Leighton Meester, ‘Your Love is a Drug’: Stream it here
Lady Gaga at Radio City: Best. Concert. Ever.

Jan 27 2010 01:53 PM ET

Susan Sarandon gets spanky, Solange covers Michael Jackson at Of Montreal show

Neo-psychedelic freak-pop outfit Of Montreal welcomed a few surprise guests at its New York City Highline Ballroom show last night—namely, Oscar-winning MILF Susan Sarandon and destiny’s less-appreciated child Solange Knowles, who, between her previous appearances with OM and excellent recent Dirty Projectors cover, has apparently become the Official Beyonce-Adjacent Ambassador of Alt.

Watch her take on the Jackson 5′s “I Want You Back” with Montreal frontman Kevin Barnes below:

To see Sarandon onstage spanking naughty pigs (not a euphemism), click through the jump: READ FULL STORY »

Jan 22 2010 01:30 PM ET

New Leighton Meester, 'Your Love Is a Drug': Stream it here

Blair Waldorf has a new one for you, kids, and as tinkly strobe-light pop songs go, it’s actually…kind of awesome: Light, synth-onic, and with a nice feathery Ace-of-Basey hook.

Stream the latest from Gossip Girl turned nascent Gwen-abee Leighton Meester’s upcoming album of nearly the same name, below:

In the amour-as-narcotic song genre, she joins a diverse list, including Ke$ha (“Your Love Is My Drug”) and Roxy Music (“Love is the Drug”). Will this one bring her “Good Girls Gone Bad” levels of pop-chart success, minus a Cobra Starship or Robin Thicke assist?

(Follow the Music Mix on Twitter: @EWMusicMix.)

More from EW.com’s Music Mix:
Lady Gaga at Radio City: Best. Concert. Ever.
Heidi Montag has big boobs, tiny album sales: her flop album sells fewer than 1,000 copies its first week
More Lilith Fair artists announced: Is this shaping up to be the best tour of the summer?
Ke$ha tells us all kinds of awesome, crazy stuff: ‘Have I made out with chicks? Hell yeah.’
Simon Cowell plans all-star Haiti benefit single

Jan 14 2010 06:30 PM ET

Rockabye Babies: Which pop songs work magic on crabby kids?

The 17th-century English playwright and poet William Congreve once famously said “Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast.” Clearly, he anticipated Stevie Knicks approximately 300 years before the rest of us:

Stevie can’t be the only one who knows how to soothe a savage baby. When Raffi and “Row Row Row Your Boat” fail, what turns demonic, screaming little rage-nuggets into docile lambs? The Beatles? Sade? Sabbath? Give us your time- and toddler-tested picks in the comments section below.

More from EW.com’s Music Mix:
Perez Hilton on his search for a new boy band
Teddy Pendergrass: Stars pay their respects to the late soul legend
‘Jersey Shore’ earns juicy tribute tune from Sarah Bareilles? Fuggetaboutit. Or don’t!
Jay Reatard: Friends and colleagues respond to his death
Mary J. Blige: Watch an intimate, intense performance of the ‘Precious’ anthem ‘Color’ exclusively here

Jan 11 2010 09:30 AM ET

'Badder Romance': Watch the Lady Gaga-approved YouTube spoof

What would a humble fan have to do to earn a mention on Lady Gaga’s official Twitter account? Try re-creating one of her freaky videos shot-by-shot. Hey, it worked when a few friends named Britnee, Ian, Nikki, and Kayla (a.k.a. BINKproductionz) took on Gaga’s “Bad Romance” for a YouTube parody they called “Badder Romance.”

Sure, the BINK buddies don’t have anything close to Gaga’s wardrobe budget or lip-syncing skills. But who needs those when you have this much enthusiasm for the source material? Their handiwork elicited a “holy s—” from Gaga herself, who posted a link to the YouTube clip on Twitter last night. Check out “Badder Romance” below (NSFW language in the blooper reel that follows the video) and let us know how you think it compares to Lady Gaga’s original.

(Follow the Music Mix on Twitter: @EWMusicMix.)

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Ke$ha: Could she be 2010′s Gaga?
Roisin Murphy Q&A
Happy birthday, Elvis: 75 reasons to love the King on his 75th!
Lil Wayne’s “On Fire” video

Jan 4 2010 02:37 PM ET

Happy 50th Birthday, Michael Stipe! The R.E.M. frontman celebrates the half-century mark

Life (or should we say, its Rich Pageant) made an internationally recognized rock star out of a scrappy little military brat born January 4, 1960, in Decatur, Georgia; today, it also makes him one of the first of 2010 to celebrate his semi-centennial.

To follow this year: Bono (May 10), Chuck D (August 1), Aimee Mann (Sept. 8), Husker Du’s Bob Mould (Oct. 16) and the Replacements’ Paul Westerberg (Dec. 31). Also? Sean Penn, Hugh Grant, Jean Claud Van Damme and Jennifer Grey (nobody puts Baby in the AARP!)

Now 27 years into a career that began with R.E.M.’s college-rock watermark Murmur in 1983, Stipe has been an activist, a multi-Grammy winner, a misplacer of religion, a maestro of Mary Kay, and, as of 2007, an official Rock and Roll Hall of Famer.

Watch him and the band performing “Moon River” and “Pretty Persuasion” on England’s Old Grey Whistle Test in 1984. Youth! Hair! Wonderment! Mr. Stipe, we salute you:

Jan 4 2010 11:39 AM ET

New Jay-Z video, 'On to the Next One': What's black and white and fierce all over?

How the Hova says “Happy New Year”: with flaming basketballs, crystal skulls, chocolate syrup, and Swizz Beatz. Also—lactating high-tops, a dance we’ll call the Louis Vuitton Luggage Bounce, and a lipsticked, ambisexual man-boy who looks like Scott Weiland and Velvet Goldmine‘s Jack Fairy had a baby.

Watch the black-and-white clip for The Blueprint 3‘s “On to the Next One” below and tell us, high art, or just gratuitous weirdiosity? Me, I’m sold:

(Follow the Music Mix on Twitter: @EWMusicMix.)

More from EW.com’s Music Mix:
The 10 best singles of 2009: EW’s definitive list
Flaming Lips cover Pink Floyd’s ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ album; results are surprisingly awful
The year in NSFW video: What were the gnarliest, nakedest music clips of ‘09?
The ultimate 2009 mashup
The most watched YouTube videos of 2009

Dec 30 2009 05:29 PM ET

Who needs a whole choir to make 'Glee'? This guy can belt out a duet all by himself

A lot of us here are stoked about the release of Glee’s first thirteen episodes on DVD (I can finally skip the fake pregnancy subplot!), but we’re also left wondering what we’re going to do without a reliable dose of singing and dancing teenyboppers in our lives, at least until the show returns in April.

Well, if you want more Glee in your life, why not make it yourself? That’s what YouTube sensation Nick Pitera has done: The 23-year-old has the jaw-dropping ability to sing pitch-perfectly in a smooth male croon and in a falsetto that, well, sounds like a girl’s voice. And a fabulous one at that.

You have to hear what he does to believe it. Pitera covers Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’” and sings it just like it appears in the Fox series’ first episode—that is, he does it as a male-female duet. And as you can see in the split-screen video below, this computer-animator-by-day performs both parts himself. If you close your eyes while he alternates between vocal registers, you would swear it’s two separate people—of different sexes—singing.

You can also check out Pitera’s take on Glee’s cover of Bill Withers feel-good-classic “Lean on Me,” where he yet again belts out the boy/girl sections with equal aplomb.

So what do you say? Have you heard Nick Pitera before, (his “Don’t Stop Believin’” cover is up to one million views, so somebody has to be watching), and what do you make of his singular talent? And if you still aren’t wowed, check out his cover of “A Whole New World” from Aladdin. You won’t dare close your eyes.

More from EW.com’s Music Mix:
Simon Cowell, music industry destroyer? The ‘Grinch’ fires back at critics
What are YOUR year-end top 10 albums and singles?
The ultimate 2009 mashup
The most watched YouTube videos of 2009
The 10 most played holiday songs: How is Mimi’s ‘All I Want for Christmas’ not on here?

Dec 28 2009 03:14 PM ET

The ultimate 2009 mash-up: This year's biggest pop hits in under five minutes

Like he did last year and the year before, master masher-upper DJ Earworm has put the top 25 Billboard hits of 2009 in one swirly four-minute-and-45-seconds blender, and it’s actually pretty ingenious.

Watch them all—Beyonce and the Black Eyed Peas, Drake and Taylor (does she even need the Swift anymore?), Miley Cyrus and Kings of Leon—below and tell us, how does it make you feel about the musical year that was?

Dec 16 2009 02:58 PM ET

Miley, SuBo, Lonely Island ... What were your most-watched YouTube videos of 2009?

Yahoo has released its list of the most-watched YouTube videos of the year, and—shocker!—a certain Scottish Dream Warbler is far and away the champion, at 120 million-plus views.

Following Susan Boyle at a distant second—you’ll recognize him by the trail of cotton batting and wisdom-tooth drool—is “David After Dentist,” but music reigns again (adjacently, but again) with the third-place finisher “JK Wedding Dance Entrance,” a.k.a. the Midwestern Chris Brown Nuptial Boogaloo.

In the category of straight-up music videos, Pitbull’s “I Know You Want Me,” finished first with more than 82 million views, followed by a Miley Cyrus double whammy (“The Climb” at 64 million views and “Party In The U.S.A.” at 48 million). Andy Samberg and co. T-Pained their way to the no. 4 spot with SNL‘s “I’m On A Boat” (also at 48 million), and Keri Hilson took the fifth spot (35 million) with el señors Kanye and Ne-Yo with “Knock You Down.”

What got you through 2009 on repeat repeat repeat? Tell this guy, because he can hardly stand the suspense:

(Follow the Music Mix on Twitter: @EWMusicMix.)

More from EW.com’s Music Mix:
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ABBA, the Stooges, Genesis join Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010
Rihanna’s nearly nude GQ cover
Watch U2 and Elvis Costello
Lil’ Wayne and Eminem drop new single ‘Drop the World’: What do you think?

Surfer Blood and Beach House: Which oceanic indie band is the shore thing? Let’s sea!
Courtney Love loses custody of Frances Bean

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